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2017-2018 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

SOC 480 - Sociology of Law

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The law is conceptualized as both a problem and solution. Course emphasizes law as a social process and problematizes the law as a social institution, revealing how its meaning and content are as changeable as the political, social and economic forces of society. A central theme of the course is the complex and reciprocal relationship between law and social change. Law is investigated as both a dependent and independent variable. Special attention is given to law in theory and practice relative to cultural values, conflicting interests, cultural resistance, status and power, and popular will. Even years Spring.